AbeBooks has just uploaded a nice video of their trip to London’s Olympia International Antiquarian Book Fair in June, including a visit to our stand to see our press copy of Ulysses. Look closely and you’ll see a few of our other rare books and first editions, as well! Fair season is kicking off once again, so to check where we’ll be exhibiting in the coming months please see our events page.
From Ottoman Might to the Arab Revolt: The Hejaz Railway as Engineering Feat, Pilgrimage Highway, and Battleground
The Hejaz Railway, the lifeline of the Ottoman Empire in Arabia and a strategic target of the Arab Revolt, began to be constructed by imperial decree in 1900, at the behest of Sultan Abdülhamid II (r. 1876-1909). It was an astounding feat of engineering which...
